Deputies: Drunk Tigers fan, lost after falling in river, arrested after breaking into Rochester Hills home

A man who authorities said was highly intoxicated after attending a Detroit Tigers baseball game Monday was arrested the following morning after breaking into a Rochester Hills home.

Deputies were called around 7 a.m. Tuesday to the 3100 block of Quail Ridge  near South Adams and Hamlin roads  after a report of a home invasion in progress. The homeowner, 87, told officials a young man had thrown a large rock through his window and came into the house.

When deputies arrived, the 87-year-old told them he had found the suspect  a 22-year-old Washington Township resident  disoriented and asking for help, but had soon ran out of the house. There was broken glass and blood inside the house, authorities said.

Deputies soon learned that the man had then gone to another house in the neighborhood after the break-in. He was taken into custody shortly after.

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Initial investigations revealed that the suspect had been to the Tigers game the night before and was highly intoxicated, officials said. His friends dropped him off in the Quail Ridge neighborhood, and he had been wandering all night, falling into the nearby Clinton River on the way.

The suspect was taken to McLaren Hospital by Rochester Hills firefighters for initial treatment, and he was lodged in the Oakland County Jail after being treated.

The investigation into this incident remains open, detectives said Wednesday morning.